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In our weekly column A Day In The Life Of, we are trying to step into the shoes of awesome techies from various organisations and sectors who are working in emerging tech areas like big data, data analytics, artificial intelligence,…

Putting up a competitive front for Bengaluru, the south Indian city of Hyderabad is upping its ante as a hub for emerging tech companies. After housing research and development labs for companies such as Adobe, State Street, PayPal in the…

Union Skill Development Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey this week laid the foundation stone for the country’s first Indian Institute of Skills (IISs) in Mumbai. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship had approved the proposal to set up IISs in Kanpur,…

In a piece of news that may finally end the tiff between NITI Aayog and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Government is reportedly going to allocate ₹7,000 crore to the former to launch a nation-wide artificial intelligence…

Taking a positive step towards implementing artificial intelligence education among the Gen Z, CBSE this week announced its partnership with tech giant IBM to run a pilot project in 1,000 schools with a new and improved syllabus. At the beginning…

Indian mobile phone ad firm InMobi has raised $45 million for its new locked screen news app Glance. This is InMobi’s first B2C product ever. The funding came from noted firm Mithril Capital, which is headquartered in Austin, Texas and…

Tech giant Adobe this week showcased how it was tweaking its new Adobe Customer Journey Analytics solution in a way that is easy to use. Announced recently, Adobe’s new product helps businesses and brands access layers of multi-channel customer data to…

The food tech industry is at the peak of its evolution and most consumers are moving closer to the usage of tech-driven platforms. India has also seen many players extending their services to the food aggregation space. Drive on any…

Noted billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma is set to step down as the company’s executive chairman. The news broke on Tuesday, morning adding that he was leaving the billion-dollar behemoth on his 55th birthday. This news has not really…

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H) have developed a method by which the inner workings of artificial intelligence models can be understood in terms of causal attributes. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are AI models and programs that…